Assassin Thriller

Several times a week, Charlotte Jones leaves suburbia behind and boards a chartered flight to parts unknown, where she wraps her hands around the necks of marks for just as long as she has to. Then she goes back to domestic life with a paycheck, defense wounds, and the sense that she can handle anything. Which is good, because being a wife, mother, and sociopath, with an insatiable taste for murder, gives the term work-life balance new meaning.

Tirée de l'esprit de l'auteur Alfred C. Martino, cette nouvelle jaillit des rues sombres et violentes du Los Angeles des années 1990. Comme l'explique le protagoniste, la sueur de la chaleur du sud de la Californie dégoulinant sur son Glock : « Je n'ai jamais commis de meurtre et je n'ai jamais été assassiné. Mais j'ai rêvé des deux. »

A man, a former assassin, who is now in love, a man on his honeymoon, who vows to leave the killing behind him. That is, until someone sets their eyes on revenge and goes after his woman. Now someone is going to find out just what a Savage he really is.

I’m officially dead. Unofficially, I’m alive and on the run. There are new questions. New dangers. New scars that cut deep. There’s also my new travel buddy, a total psycho who could kill me any moment. And did I mention I’m hated all over the internet? Meanwhile, the evil JPAC are planning something terrible that puts us all eyeballs deep in trouble. So, do I lay low and keep running? Or risk everything and fight back? Whatever I do next, it’s gonna determine the rest of my (potentially very short) life. It could decide yours too.

Elle Newmark's richly seductive prose brings to life the color and scandal of 15th-century Venice. Through Luciano, a street urchin apprenticed to a great chef in the palace of the doge, Newmark tells a wicked tale of political and papal intrigue. In Venice where every whisper is a secret or a lie, Luciano's initiation into the chef's spicy world makes for deliciously suspenseful listening.

Retired private detective and current seventh grader Steve Brixton has a new career: taking out the garbage on Wednesdays for five bucks a week. But it’s hard to leave the old game behind, and on a train trip down the California coast, Steve finds himself pulled back into sleuthing. Soon he’s in over his head in four feet and eleven inches of mystery involving a fleet of priceless automobiles, a deadly assassin (or maybe just a faulty lock on a sauna door), and a secret train car filled with intrigue. Plus there’s a girl involved, which complicates everything.

Guy believed he’d found the answer to overcoming that bleak dysfunctional fatalism they all felt. Bottling up emotions isn’t good, he reasoned. So, he would do what ordinary people did and he would set up an emotional support group. It was only when the newest member joined the group that things started to happen. The tables were turning and the assassins found themselves being targeted. This wasn’t good, but at least it gave an opportunity to get away from the hotel that served the worst tea imaginable.

Victor è un assassino abile, spietato, una faccia che scompare tra la folla senza lasciare indizi. Rintracciato da un vecchio contatto che gli chiede di proteggere la figlia Gisele, accetta l'incarico in nome della vecchia amicizia che lo lega a Eleanor, la madre della ragazza. Gisele è a Londra e, stando alle poche notizie che si hanno di lei, è diventata l'obiettivo dei nemici di suo padre.

The sun had begun its descent towards the western horizon and the promise of warmth was sinking with it. Gold and pink rays glancing off mountaintops spread as one over the frozen lake below. Midway up a mountain slope overlooking the lake and not too far from where the Urals trailed off into the wasteland, Pavel Rostislav lay in wait. A light wind whispered across the incline, bringing cold that found a way through his winter gear and set him shivering.

Victor, con il suo ultimo lavoro sporco per una fazione dell'agenzia di intelligence americana, si è creato nuovi nemici potenti e ogni sua mossa può essere l'ultima. Vive braccato dai sicari di un intermediario a cui lui stesso dà la caccia, e da poco si trova anche nel mirino di Antonio Alvarez, un funzionario dell'agenzia di spionaggio americana che essendosi fatto strada fino a raggiungere i piani alti può finalmente scovare l’assassino che gli è sfuggito durante un’operazione a Parigi.

Victor ha un talento naturale per l'omicidio. Sicario abile e spietato si trova costretto a lavorare per conto di un misterioso agente della CIA: tre sconosciuti, tre colpi. Ma il lavoro non è veloce e pulito come avrebbe voluto. Man mano che il killer elimina le sue vittime, si rende conto che il gioco si fa sempre più complesso, intricato e letale. Nel suo mestiere non è sempre facile tracciare una linea netta tra nemici e alleati, ma Victor si accorge di essere nel mezzo di una guerra segreta.

Ian Bridges works as a hitman and is on permanent stand-by for West End gangster John Broad. He does maybe three or four jobs a year and spends the rest of his life desperately trying to find Mrs Right so he can settle down, but can't and it feels like the world is conspiring against him. He's about to find out he's right.

In Act III of Newbery Medalist Cynthia Voigt’s Mister Max trilogy, the solutioneer sets off to rescue his missing parents! Ever since Max’s parents were spirited away on a mysterious ship, he has longed to find them. He’s solved case after case for other people in his business as “solutioneer”. And he’s puzzled out the coded messages sent by his father. He doesn’t know exactly what’s happened, but he knows his parents are in danger - and it’s up to Max to save them. Max and his friends (and a few old foes) don disguises and set sail on a rescue mission.

Treeka can’t tell friend from foe. As New York lies in battle-ravaged ruin, the desperate cyborg struggles to evade murderous hordes of humans infected by a maniacal doctor’s neurotoxin. And though an elite group of assassins invites her to join their underground institution, the severely injured fugitive refuses to accept the role of a paid killer.

When invisibility is insufficient protection from his enemies, Darkmind hides in plain sight - in Ji Anna’s body. Told from Darkmind’s perspective, Vaya Sage finds himself in a lethal game of wits while still disoriented from a black market brain scan. While Darkmind reviews memories from previous bodies, Vaya Sage must determine whether or not to confront Darkmind. If he does, he risks mental enslavement - if he doesn’t, he may destroy everything he’s fought for.

After the mob destroys his restaurant, killing his pregnant wife in the process, Dan Stone has nothing left to live for except...payback. He unleashes a series of devastating attacks on the mob designed to destroy their operations before exacting his final revenge. Using his skills as an experienced army sniper, Dan methodically sets out to assassinate those responsible and take down the Brooklyn crime family involved in killing his wife.

Nick's partner Gus Nason thinks Nick may be going slowly crazy trying to retire as a reclusive best-selling author. Gus assumes even with Nick's wife Rachel pregnant, and walking Jean and Deke the dog to school, Nick will become a danger if not pursuing what he does best: killing people. Gus quickly regrets his influence over his partner, when the first time out of the retirement chute, Nick's contract on Sheik Abdul Nazari begins a chain of events he never envisioned.

Victor sembra non avere passato. È risoluto, schivo, non si ferma davanti a niente, il che fa di lui un killer perfetto da assoldare. La sua prossima missione è raggiungere il sicario olandese Felix Kooi ad Algeri ed eliminarlo. Una volta portato a termine il suo compito, potrà tornarsene alla propria esistenza solitaria nella gelida Islanda. Ma la CIA, uno dei suoi principali committenti, ha altri piani: dovrà fingersi la sua stessa vittima e risalire a colui che ha assoldato Felix Kooi.

Dan Stone has a new assignment. In Africa. He's to cripple the Chinese incursions into the continent. The only problem is he might trigger World War III. This high-stakes thriller, set in the wild world of the DRC, pits Dan Stone against a complex array of forces, all vying for power and influence. The Democratic Republic of the Congo, DRC, holds some of the largest coltan deposits in the world. It is the source of two rare Earth metals, niobium and tantalum, vital to modern economies. Now the Chinese are trying to corner the market and hold the western world hostage.

If the tragic shipwreck isn't bad enough, the megadome suffers a horrid murder-rape, and Dog Breakfast co-op must bring the culprit to justice. Nyssa and Shepp follow the perp to LA where they rescue young women from vicious sex traffickers. But funds are running low, so they're joined by Griz and Jen. All four travel to Tijuana where they part $750,000 from strip-club bettors. The quartet follow the rapist to Quito, Ecuador where they must face two-dozen mercenaries and armored-robotic cyclops.